Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 122
The Ghar canal bears this name to the present day and the tree which Shahlal Mahomed used as his humble instrument is still pointed out on the bank of the Chilo canal in the Kambar taluka.
Who acts: Shahlal · What happens: use, point out · To what, where: tree, Ghar canal bears, bank
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shahlal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bears | det |
| 2 | Ghar | Ghar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bears | compound |
| 3 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bears | compound |
| 4 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tree | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 used | obj |
| 15 | Shahlal | Shahlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 used | nsubj |
| 16 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Shahlal | flat |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 instrument | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 instrument | nmod:poss |
| 20 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 instrument | amod |
| 21 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 pointed | aux:pass |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 pointed | advmod |
| 24 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 pointed | compound:prt |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bank | det |
| 28 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pointed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 canal | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 canal | det |
| 31 | Chilo | Chilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 canal | compound |
| 32 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bank | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 taluka | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 taluka | det |
| 35 | Kambar | Kambar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 taluka | compound |
| 36 | taluka | taluka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 canal | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Shahlal | the tree | as Shahlal's humble instrument | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Duration as instrument=Attribute | |||
| 2 | point out | present · passive | the Ghar canal bears | the bank of the Chilo canal in the Kambar taluka | still | this name to the present day and the tree nsubj:pass | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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